Hope Quotes - Page 39

• Golf is a hard game to figure. One day you will go out and slice it and shank it, hit into all the traps and miss every green. The next day you go out and, for no reason at all, you really stink.

  Bob Hope

  Golf, Games, Next Day

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• If thy hope be any thing worth, it will purify thee from thy sins.

  Joseph Alleine

  Sin, Thee, Ifs

  Joseph Alleine (1804). “The Solemn Warnings of the Dead: Or, An Admonition to Unconverted Sinners”, p.44

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• Providence has given human wisdom the choice between two fates: either hope and agitation, or hopelessness and calm.

  Yevgeny Baratynsky

  Fate, Two, Choices

  "Two Fates" by Yevgeny Baratynsky, translated by Dmitri Obolensky, 1823.

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• I live in hope and that I think do all
  Who come into this world.

  Robert Bridges

  Thinking, World, This World

  Robert Bridges (1912). “Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas”

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• Unlike money, hope is all: for the rich as well as for the poor.

  Fausto Cercignani

  Rich, Poor, Wells

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• As the days of spring arouse all nature to a green and growing vitality, so when hope enters the soul it makes all things new. It insures the progress which it predicts. Rooted in faith, growing up into love; these make the three immortal graces of the Gospel, whose intertwined arms and concurrent voices shed joy and peace over our human life.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Growing Up, Spring, Voice

  James Freeman Clarke (1880). “Self-culture, lectures”

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• When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Love, Life, Heart

  "Christian's Mistake" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (p. 64), 1865.

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• Although I do not hope to turn again
  Although I do not hope
  Although I do not hope to turn

  T. S. Eliot

  Turns

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.96, Faber & Faber

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• The only hope, or else despair
  Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre -
  To be redeemed from fire by fire.

  T. S. Eliot

  Lying, Fire, Choices

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.153, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Hope of consciousness is strength.
  Hope of feelings is slavery.
  Hope of body is disease.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Feelings, Body, Slavery

  "All and Everything: Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson". Book by George Gurdjieff, 1950.

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• When we realize the degree of agency we actually do have, we no longer have to "hope" at all. We simply do the work.

  Derrick Jensen

  Agency, Degrees, Realizing

  Derrick Jensen (2006). “Endgame”, p.330, Seven Stories Press

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• Casey Maddox wrote that when philosophy dies, action begins. I would say in addition that when we stop hoping for external assistance, when we stop hoping that the awful situation we're in will somehow resolve itself, when we stop hoping the situation will somehow not get worse, then we are finally free - truly free - to honestly start working to thoroughly resolve it. I would say when hope dies, action begins.

  Derrick Jensen

  Philosophy, Awful, Action

  "Endgame Volume I: The Problem of Civilization". Book by Derrick Jensen, 2011.

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• A wonderful thing happens when you give up on hope, which is that you realize you never needed it in the first place. You realize that giving up on hope doesn't kill you, nor did it make you less effective. In fact it made you more effective, because you ceased relying on someone or something else to solve your problems - you ceased hoping your problems somehow get solved, through the magical assistance of God, the Great Mother, the Sierra Club, valiant tree-sitters, brave salmon, or even the Earth itself - and you just began doing what's necessary to solve your problems yourself.

  Derrick Jensen

  Mother, Giving Up, Tree

  "Endgame, Volume 1: The Problem of Civilization". Book by Derrick Jensen, 2011.

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• It's the hope for all the hopeless in the worst of trying times.

  Nick Jonas

  Trying, Worst, Hopeless

  "Song: 'Don't Speak' ('Lines, Vines and Trying Times')". 2009.

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• Hope is the adrenalin of the soul.

  Amy Tan

  Expectations, Soul

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• Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Expectations, Bankers, Heirs

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.72

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• Without life there can be no action — no objects of pursuit — no restless desires — no tormenting passions. Hence it is that we fondly cling to it — that we dread its termination as the close, not of enjoyment, but of hope.

  William Hazlitt

  Expectations, Enjoyment, Dread

  "Collected Works of William Hazlitt".

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• A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.

  George Eliot

  Women, Expectations, Shadow

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.16

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• The old happiness is unreturning. Boy's griefs are not so grievous as youth's yearning. Boys have no sadness sadder than our hope.

  Wilfred Owen

  Grief, Sadness, Boys

  Wilfred Owen (1965). “The Collected poems of Wilfred Owen”, p.93, New Directions Publishing

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• Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Sister, Women, Advice

  1888 Plain Tales from the Hills,'False Dawn'.

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• I never saw a purple cow;
  I never hope to see one;
  But I can tell you, anyhow,
  I'd rather see than be one.

  Gelett Burgess

  Fun, Purple, Cows

  "The Purple Cow" l. 1 (1895) See Gelett Burgess 8

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• Sometimes, we don't get what we want. . . But this is a benevolent universe. And once in a while, we do.

  Melody Beattie

  Sadness, Trying, Want

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• All of us have been dying, hour by hour, since the moment we were born. Realizing this, let all things be placed in their proper perspective. . . . Remember, it is always later than you think.

  Og Mandino

  Life, Sadness, Thinking

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• Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.

  Edward de Bono

  Creativity, Ideas, Giving

  Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

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• Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.

  Judy Garland

  Dream, Sky, Blue

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